The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-08-26

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ind the conductor, looking as pale as
/ ghost. My wife's a-dying,' said he.
Amt there no medical mar Oh the
ramp And when he said no, he just
rave a groan. Then she must die,
ae said. Great heavens! why did l
,ring her on this fatal Journey"
Perhaps the young ladyn have
some remedies suggested oDe OF the
oorters; for we'd all got into the way
lready of turning to the young lady
whenever things were wrong.
''WelI, | went for her. and you new
II see anyone so level headed as she
!! ;c1.Sa e ha. She knew lust what to
To-; and she had the right medicine in
,er bag; and in less than An hour that
Door lady was quite comfortable, and
| 1er husband the most relieved man
hat ever was. Then the young lady
came along where | was standing-therc
wasn't nothing for me to do, but | was
waiting, for / didn't know but there
! night be--and said she: Mr. Scott am
growing anxious about the fuel. DO
you think there is plenty to last ? Sup
pose we were to be kept here a week ?
Now Just think of it not n of us
lumb fools had thought Of that. You
zee we was expecting to be relieved
from hour to hour, for we had tCle-
yraphed both ways, and the snow had
stopped by that time, and none OF us
1ad any notion it was going to be the
Job it was to dig us out. Only the
young lady had the sense to remember
that it might take longer than we was
calculated on.
Says l, If we were kept here a
week, there won't be a shovel of coal
eft for any of the fires, let alone the
engine
""TAen don't you think says she,
n her soft voice, that it would be a
wise plan to get all the passengers to-
gether in n car, and keep a good fire
up there, and let the other stoves go
outP It's no matter if We are a little
crowded. says she.
well, of course it was the only
hing to do, as we see at once when it
was put into our heads. We took the
oar the sick lady was in, SOS she'd not
have to be disturbed, and we made up
beds for the children, and somehow all
the passengers managed to pack in,
rain hands and all. 1t was a tight
squeeze, but that didn't matter so much,
because the weather was so awfully
cold.
THAT was the way l come to see so
much Of the young lady. hadn't any
thing to keep me about the engine, so
[ kind of detailed myself off to wait on
her. She vas busy all day long doing
things for the rest. It's queer how
peoples characters come out at such
times. We got to know all about each
other. People stopped string and
ma'am-ing and being polite, and show
ed for just what they were worth. The
selfish ones, and the shirks, and the
towards, and the mean cusses who want
I'd to blame some one for sending the
weather-there want no use for any
of them to try to hide themselves M
more than it was for the other kind.
The women, as a rule, bore it better
than the men. 1t comes natural, I
suppose, for a woman to be kind Of si
lent and pale and patient when she's
suffering. But the young lady wasn't
that sort either. She was as bright as
a button all along. You'd have sup
posed from her face that she was hay
ing just the best kind Of a time!
Il can see her now, standing before
the stove roasting j~ack-rabbits for the
others supper. Some Of the gentle
men had reviewers. and when the STOW
got crusted over, SOS they could walk
on it, they used to shoot 'em. And we
were glad enough of every n shot,
provisions we're so scanty. The last
two days them rabbits and snow
water melted in pail over the stove
was all we had to eat or drink"
Il suppose there was nothing for
you to do bit wait" said Miss Vaugttlst.
mo ma'am, there wasn't nothing at
all for me to do but help the young
lady now and then. She let me help
her more than the rest, / used to think.
She'd come to me and say, mir. Scott,
this rabbit is for you and the conduct
orr She naver fnronk anpbodu-ax
cept herself. Once she asked me to
hold the SICK little girl while she took
a sleep. It was mighty pretty always
to see her with them children. They
never seemed to have enough OF her.
All OF them wanted that she should put
them to bed, and sing to them. and tell
them stories. Sometimes she'd have
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